SELF-INSPIRED
MEL Brooks still isn't satisfied with the ending of his new stage musical, "Young Frankenstein," which previews in Seattle next month before opening on Broadway in November. After the first read-through of the show here last week, the funnyman...
BACK TO SCHOOL
HE looks the part, but it is taking hard work for Matthew McConaughey to star in "Surfer Dude." The Texan actually has to get up on a surf board for the movie, so he's taking private surfing lessons in Malibu at the beach next door to Duke's, the...
WE HEAR . . .
THAT '80s band Crowded House, whose roadies saved a Page Sixer from having to take the AirTrain back from JFK at 2 a.m., are returning in three weeks to kick off their world tour after selling out the Beacon Thursday night . . . THAT Jamie...
ADIOS, AMIGOS
THEY were all boys when filming "That '70s Show," but the fame hungry cast of the canceled Fox series aren't hanging together these days. Over-gelled Wilmer Valderrama plans to pimp out his fashion label Calavena at Southampton club Stereo by the...
FAMILY SECRET
A NEW biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt reveals a deep, dark secret the American railroad tycoon carried to his grave - he had an unquenchable thirst for hookers and succumbed to a debilitating sexual disease. In "Commodore: The Life of Cornelius...
NEW BOOK DETAILS NAZI HORROR
GERMAN government officials - already panicked about Tom Cruise's new Nazi epic "Valkyrie" filming near Berlin - should brace themselves for an even more lurid tale about the monsters of the Third Reich. In "13 Steps," now being shopped to...
SIGHTINGS
A "RADIANT" Lindsay Lohan with her sobriety coach at Rock & Republic's Malibu house party, drinking an energy drink and dancing onstage with Scott Weiland and Steve Jones . . . "COUSIN Brucie" Morrow and female friend walking hand in hand on Houston...
NEW FLAP OVER WARHOL PORTRAIT
ED Hayes wasn't surprised at all this week when the Andy Warhol Foundation was accused in a $20 million lawsuit of conspiracy, restraint of trade and market manipulation. The suit was brought by filmmaker Joe Simon-Whelan after the Andy Warhol Art...
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